{"id":4375,"date":"2019-01-22T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2019-04-02T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T00:25:17","slug":"athlete-of-the-week-january-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2019\/01\/22\/athlete-of-the-week-january-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete of the Week: January 22, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4376\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-12.42.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4376\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4376 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-12.42.56-PM-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-12.42.56-PM-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-12.42.56-PM.png 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture provided by Skylar Roerig<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athlete of the Week: Skylar Roerig \u201821<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Kate Getz \u201821<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Position: Backstroke and Freestyle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hometown: Tunkhannock <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family Members: Kelly Roerig (mother), Adam Roerig (father), Samantha Roerig (sister)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Swim Team: Florida Gators<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Swimmer: Katie Ledecky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Subject: Biology <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Food: Mac and Cheese<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Color: Navy blue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Role Model: Katie Ledecky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite Moment of Season: Breaking the pool record in the 100 back, and breaking the 200 medley relay with Kylee Kolbicka, Madi Federici, and Aviah Dahlgren<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fun Fact: This is Skylar\u2019s 11th season swimming on a team<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other Clubs\/Sport: Rowing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a short time of two years, Skylar Roerig has done some very impressive things on the Sem swim team. Last season as a freshman, she won team MVP and broke numerous records. Despite the team only being about half way through their season, Skylar has already broken the 100 meter record for backstroke and the record for the 200 meter medley along with Aviah Dahlgren, Madi Federici, and Kylee Kolbicka. Skylar and the swim team look to continue their success Thursday January 24 in their meet versus Dallas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athlete of the Week: Skylar Roerig \u201821 By Kate Getz \u201821 Position: Backstroke and Freestyle Hometown: Tunkhannock Family Members: Kelly Roerig (mother), Adam Roerig (father), Samantha Roerig (sister) Favorite Swim <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2019\/01\/22\/athlete-of-the-week-january-22-2019\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-12.42.56-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}